Custom Software Development Services

Erik Vigmostad, the President of Nordtech Research, has been in the Software Development Business since 1973. He has a Masters Degree in Engineering from UCLA. All of our software engineers are individuals who have proven themselves in industry. You would be happy to have any one of them working on your staff as a direct employee.

Key Benefits

Timely - we make it our business to keep schedules.

Cost effective - our engineers have proven track records at meeting budgets

Reliable - We design and code for maintainability

Capabilities

Nordtech Research can provide a software solution for you. From analysis of requirements, to design and implementation. Our software engineers have many years of industry experience both as employees and contractors to the nations top technology companies.

Environments

Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, DOS, UNIX, VMS

Languages

C, C++, Visual Basic, Java

Systems

Communications, engineering analysis tools, avionics, embedded systems, scheduling algorithms, Windows Device Drivers (3.1, 95, NT), Lonworks/Echelon Network programming, Website development, etc.

Tools

MSDN Developer, Vireo Device Driver tools for Windows 3.1, 95 and NT (Driver:Works), Borland C++, Borland C++ Builder, Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0.

Completed Projects

Websites

http://www.bestphonerates.com

http://www.lo-rates.com

http://www.nordtechresearch.com

Embedded Multitasking Echelon/Lonworks Systems

Ported a DOS based Lonworks driver / network interface to a multitasking real-time system.  Developed a multiple packet file transfer program for the system.

Y2K ( Year 2000 ) Solution

Provided an analysis and implementation of a Y2K solution for a major manufacturer.   The problem traced to one of the input files to the system which use a 2 digit field.  When dates were compared internally, the system executed improperly when other input files had dates greater than 2000.  This occured even when the system date was still in the 20th century.

Windows 95 and NT Keyboard Device Driver

A keyboard manufacturer contracted us to develop an application and necessary device drivers to program their keyboard at system startup.  We used the Vireo tools for the 3.1/95 (VToolsD) and NT (Driver:Works) device drivers.  The application was essentially the same for both, except for the interfacing with the driver.  The driver would update the registry the keyboard was programmed properly.  The application would read the registry at launch to show what options were set.

New York Government Brokerage Firm Trading Software

This firm needed to be able to transmit data from their in-house front office trading system, to their clients computers and to their own custom pages on the Reuters news system terminals.  Although their in-house system used a custom terminal to display the data, they wanted the same data displayed on monochrome IBM monitors and on Reuters.    We were contracted to capture the data going to these terminals and reformat it for display on their customers PC's.  The data was multiple pages of formatted data with bid and ask prices for government securities.  The PC program maintained 20 different pages of data which the customer could select instantly for display with functions keys, etc.

Software was also developed for an in-house computer (a 80286) to capture this same data feed and reformat 3 of the pages for processing and transmittal to the Reuters system.  The system allowed mapping of various issues from the main pages to selected rows/columns on the Reuters pages.

This same computer also captured futures contract data from a CBOT datafeed.   Certain bond, note and bill issues were processed and combined with the data going to given page on the customers computer.

Realtime Data Acquisition and Graphing System

As part of a long term contract to provide software development services, a data acquisition system was developed for an automobile engine testing application.  This system was set up to trigger at Top Dead Center (TDC) of cylinder 1.  The system would sample for different sensors each time a secondary trigger (position sensor mounted to trigger as each flywheel tooth passed) occurred.  At engine redline (typically 6000 RPM), sampling would reach 60,000 samples/second.

The sensor data was processed in Realtime according to normalization formulas (typically exponential smoothing, etc.).  The data was then graphed in a custom display.  At higher Rpm's, this graphing capability would need to be turned off or data would be lost.  Data could later be reprocessed with different formulas, re-displayed, or graphed in a variety of formats.

Rule Based Manufacturing System, Pascal to C Translation

Translated a "rule based manufacturing system" from Pascal to 'C' for Pella Window Corporation. This expert system was written in a highly machine specific Pascal and was translated to ANSI C. System was developed to run in 32 Bit DOS protected mode or UNIX.

Round Robin Sporting Event Scheduling System

Developed a 32 Bit Windows program to schedule round robin sporting events. This program is the most sophisticated of its kind (non-professional sports) and is being used by local Little Leagues.

Neural Network Front-end Processing System

Developed a Windows (Borland C++, OWL) front end to a neural network stock market analysis program.

Windows Bond Analysis System

Developed a Windows "Bond Spread Trading" program under contract to a Chicago government security trading company. This program obtained data via a modem and looked for securities that were under or over priced.

Asynchronous Communications Toolbox

Developed and still marketing the Async Toolbox which is a library of 'C' communications routines for IBM-PC and Digiboard intelligent communications hardware.

Data Encryption Algorithm

Contract to develop data encryption algorithms for a UNIX based Expert System. A heavy encryption algorithm was developed for the knowledge base file on disk and a light encryption algorithm for the in-memory knowledge base. All written in 'C'.

Miniature Non-Contact Torque Sensor, Data Acquisition Software

Contract with the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Command on a Small Business Innovation Research Grant (SBIR). Contract was to develop a proprietary non-contact torque system.  As part of the contract a set of real-time data acquisition and display routines were developed (PASCAL).

Information Request Form

Select the items that apply, and then let us know how to contact you.

Send service literature
Send company literature
Have a salesperson contact me

      Name: 
     Title: 
   Company: 
   Address: 
    E-mail: 
     Phone: 

mailto:evigmostad@nordtechresearch.com

Copyright © 1999 Nordtech Research, Inc.
Last modified: April 21, 2002